THE SOUL OF THE TIGER

SYNOPSIS: Alex Chen has spent his life comfortably suspended between worlds — a French upbringing, a French girlfriend, and a Chinese heritage he’s mostly kept at arm’s length. When his brother suddenly dies under mysterious circumstances, Alex is pulled back toward his family’s roots, enlisting a cousin as guide and translator as he digs into secrets that span two continents. In his assured feature debut, Chinese-Swiss director François Yang draws on his own family history for this intimate, autobiographically-charged meditation on grief, identity, and the pull of a heritage too long ignored.